利用低轨卫星轨道资料获取降水云团空间尺度的新方案遥感学报.docVIP

1007-4619（2010）01 Journal of Remote Sensing 遥感学报 利用低轨卫星轨道资料获取降水云团空间尺度的新方案* 刘奇 傅云飞 王雨 中国科学技术大学，地球和空间科学学院，大气探测与气候环境实验室 安徽合肥，230026  A novel algorithm for retrieving spatial scale of precipitating clouds from low-orbiting satellite observations LIU Qi, FU Yunfei, WANG Yu Laboratory of Atmospheric Observation and Climatological Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, Hefei 230026 Abstract: Satellite remote sensing has evident predominance in observing the spatial structure of mesoscale weather system when compared with those from ground-based observations. Among the numerous satellite remote techniques, microwave measurements is the most reliable way for accurately obtaining spatial scale of precipitating clouds, which so far can only be inferred from low-orbiting satellite. Due to the limited swath width, most detectable objects are not totally covered by a specific orbit, resulting that there is inevitable underestimate to retrieve spatial scale of precipitating clouds in traditional pixel-counting method. A new scheme was proposed in this study to account for such a handicap, which is based on the statistics of object area fraction that is somewhat insensitive to the orbit truncation. In order to get a measurement that could be accurately received, continuous circle object was consulted. Accordingly the equivalent radius was finally defined by using a minimum deviation principle to indicate the object scale. Since the equivalent radius is an indirect indicator of object spatial scale, it could be used as a secondary strategy to modify the results from counting method, by which the underestimate would be restrained to some extent. Key words: precipitating clouds, spatial scale, object area fraction, equivalent radius 1. 引言 由于同天气背景密切相关，云生消过程中所伴随的云团空间尺度变化对未来天气演变有很好的指示作用，常作为辅助指标用于临近天气预报（王改利刘黎平，2007）。而且与云生命史、云水路径、云光学厚度、云滴有效半径等宏观、微观云物理属性一样，云团